this luncheon earlier today seemed unprepared. not only in how to detail, i guess, how all these tariffs are going to be implemented and put into place, but also unprepared to teal with the push-back coming from their fellow republicans. in the words of this one republican official, they must have seen this coming. they should not have been surprised by all of this because, what's happening, john, republicans have gone along with the president's tariffs on china so far, because they've seen that as retaliating against chinese trade practices. they see this as something being very different. they see this as going after mexico, because of the policy down on the border and the president is trying to get some sort of response out of mexico by slapping these tariffs. senator ted cruz, who has been a strong supporter of if, even though he was a critic of the president in the past, apparently talked at length about how he's not only worried about how these tariffs will affect texans on the u.s. side, but if mexico retaliates and imposes their own tariffs on u.s. goods going to mexico, that could hurt people in texas, as